fort monroe

Learning Management System
(LMS) Implementation Policies
www.tadlp.monroe.army.mil

POC's

mccarthyp@monroe.army.mil

(TDAD)

olszykga@monroe.army.mil

(TOMA)

TRAINING AND DOCTRINE COMMAND

Distance Learning
Program

Gayle Olszyk & Paul McCarthy

Training Development & Analysis Directorate
TRADOC Program Integration Officer-
The Army Distance Learning Program

Interim and Objective
Learning Management
System

Command

Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Training
FT Monroe, Virginia

Purpose

To provide information on
implementation of the
Interim and Objective Army
Learning Management
Systems to support
Distance Learning (DL)
instruction.

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Topics Covered

Overview of Plan

Overview of the Interim LMS

Implementation of the Interim
LMS

Overview of the Objective LMS

Implementation of the Objective
LMS

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LMS Implementation Plan

- Implement as many functional
requirements as possible under an interim
LMS concept

- Interim LMS functions/procedures would
last for 15 months to 2 years (FY01-03)

- Interim primary function is support of DL
quota-managed courses

- Version 1.0 of the objective system must
primarily support DL functions

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Overview of the Interim LMS

Components:

* ATRRS - Registration, Enrollment, Record of
Completion

* Current ACCP Program - Courseware Distribution

* TREDS-R Completion Data to ATRRS (from Ingenium
courseware)

* Ingenium- Student Tracking/Test Grading, Pass/Fail 1
TREDS-R

* Army Knowledge Online - Collaboration Tools

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interim Learning Management

System

TRADOC
(ATSC)
Courseware

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Courseware

Distribution

Unit quota
management,
reservation.

Courseware, Welcome
letter, and "How To"
instructions sent to
soldiers

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Implementation of Interim

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Get courses/phase in ATRRS (quotas)

Proponents answer critical questions -answers
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ATRRS

Run trials of procedures using actual students
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Setup courseware distribution methods
similar to ACCP's system

Run trial of procedures with course

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Interim DL Implementation
Procedures

1. Training Manager / Quota Source (QS) inpul
TM puts student name in ATRRS.

2. ATRRS notifies the schools, unit, DTF,
installation, and MACOM of student enrollmer

3. Installation notifies the unit.

4. ATRRS notifies ATSC for courseware distribi

5. Orders, school letters, and read-ahead
package sent.

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Interim DL Implementation

Procedures

6. Deliver Course (CD-ROM, On-line,
paper products)

7. Monitor/Track Student (proponent)

8. Deliver Test, as desired

9. TREDS-R scores tests & sends
certification of completion by email

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Interim DL Implementation
Procedures

10. ATRRS generate and send out 1059s

11. Orders cut by the unit to send student to
resident phase.

12. Soldiers attends resident course(phase).

13. School issue the course completion
notice.

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Overview of the Objective LMS

- Education/Training Catalog (Integrated and/or
linked)

- Registration, Enrollment Functions Integrated
with ATRRS (primarily DL support)

- Student Tracking More Robust (for DL and IMI
used in resident) (checkpoints and milestones,
including time)

- Scheduling of necessary student and
resources (DT Facilities, courseware,
instructors) to time increments and schedule
deconfliction

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Overview of the Objective LMS

(Cont'd) —

- Manage distribution of education/training prod

- Integrated student-instructor and student-stud
communication and collaboration capability

- Collect/report evaluation feedback (student
critiques, instructor/other feedback)

- Security Requirements Consistent with SBU

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'T^LP

Acquisition/Implementation of
the Objective LMS

•PM, TADLP Responsibility

•Block 3 Learning Management System SOW to vendors
for proposals

•Further Requirements Decomposition - Translation of
functional to "requirements" language with metrics.

•System Software Specifications - What must the Block 3
LMS do?

•Functional Allocation Matrix - Which to who? (ATRRS,
ASAT, Legacy, LMS V1.0)

•System Interface Requirements - Which, how, what
•Trade-off Analysis -COTS/GOTS/NDI/New Code

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